Rep. King hopes healthcare repeal efforts expose Cruz as 'a fraud'

[joeybee12]

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said he hopes Friday's House vote to keep the government running while defunding "Obamacare" will expose Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz as "a fraud" and that "he'll no longer have any influence in the Republican Party."

The Tea Party-backed Cruz spent much of the summer drumming up pressure on fellow Republicans to refuse to fund the government unless the Affordable Care Act was also defunded at the same time. The campaign helped Cruz build a national profile among conservative activists who badly want to repeal President Barack Obama's landmark legislation.

But as the House passed legislation to do just that, some Republicans turned their ire not toward opposed Democrats, but toward the Texas firebrand.

"Today's vote is definitely a signal that we have to take a more realistic and practical approaches, that we can't be going off on these false missions that Ted Cruz wants us to go on," King told reporters before the bill passed by a partisan 230-189 vote.

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/20/20600579-rep-king-hopes-healthcare-repeal-efforts-expose-cruz-as-a-fraud?lite

[louis-t]

1. Jeez, repugs are throwing Teddy under the bus.

[winter is coming]

2. The idea that Steve King is realistic and practical...

[arely staircase]

4. peter king

Different guy.

[joeybee12]

5. This King isn't as dumb as the other...

But he does try at times.

[Lawlbringer]

11. Peter King is a world-class piece of crap

I'd go so far as to say he's worse than Steve.

[HockeyMom]

7. Peter King = Broken Clock

Always right once.

[rurallib]

8. two Kings - one's crazy; the other is fucking crazy

[HockeyMom]

9. My daughter and son-in-law live in his district

Cannot explain these morons who vote for him in a sea of Democrats on Long Island.

[winter is coming]

10. Bwah! My bad!!! n/t

[onehandle]

3. Munch munch munch. Eatin' their own. nt

[Jefferson23]

6. ooooh, stab stab stab, King. The language is important, a fraud, he said. n/t

K&R

[CrispyQ]

12. A little dated, but spot on!

[joeybee12]

14. It is still appropriiate...

if anything, they're getting more strident.

[jsr]

13. “I didn’t go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count,” Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.) wrote via Twitter,

a clear slap at Cruz’s status as an alumnus of Princeton and Harvard law.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-education-of-ted-cruz/2013/09/23/8fd1ccca-247b-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html

[joeybee12]

16. I wonder if it's actual dislike or some jealousy on the part of these

Repukes towards Cruz; either way, I'm enjoying it!

[sufrommich]

15. Bwahahahaha.I love the smell of republican flop sweat. nt

[Scurrilous]

17. K & R

[davidpdx]

18. He's only been in the Senate for only about 9 months

and has made plenty of enemies.

[Javaman]

19. the stupid calls the moron dumb. nt